Betrayed, Then Back For Blood

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Briar sat by the window, already dressed, but no matter what anyone said, she wouldn’t step outside. It wasn’t for any specific reason–just a mix of embarrassment and frustration. The only time she’d ever slipped up handling a weapon was back when she first started training. She never imagined she’d face a very different kind of unexpected discharge today.

Ashton had gone to the guest room and taken a cold shower for half an hour. When he returned, he found Briar still sitting by the window and couldn’t help but chuckle. ‘Shouldn’t I be the one feeling embarrassed here?‘ Ashton

thought.

Caught off guard and nearly losing control, Ashton’s emotions were on a tumultuous rollercoaster. Fortunately, his strong willpower enabled him to suppress his desires, allowing him to walk away just in time.

Ashton approached and gently adjusted Briar’s hair as he asked, “Briar, are you still upset?”

Briar stayed silent, her lips swollen and tender, each movement bringing a faint ache. She still couldn’t believe it- Ashton had kissed her with such intensity it felt like he was trying to consume her whole. If that phone call hadn’t

interrupted him, she might’ve truly been swept away by his hunger.

“No,” Briar muttered. She was mainly frustrated with herself for constantly losing her composure around Ashton, and since becoming his girlfriend, these moments of weakness had become increasingly frequent. The possibility of things continuing to spiral left Briar feeling quietly unsettled.

“Now that you’re no longer upset, how about we head downstairs together and see what Connor and the others

uncovered during the interrogation?” Ashton suggested, crouching down to help her with her shoes.

Briar stared at Ashton in silence, unsure of what to say. “Alright,” she finally agreed. He was being so humble and

trying so hard to please her that she couldn’t ignore him any longer. She nodded, put on her shoes, and followed

Ashton downstairs.

sitting on the couch, chatting. When they saw Ashton and

they quickly stood up. “Mr. Wade, Miss

down onto the couch and

and Sawyer are involved in an underground lab overseas, where they both hold senior professor

were confirmed–Zayne was one of the researchers

this depression–inducing drug was successfully developed. However, without any clinical trials, no one knew the potential side effects or the severity of harm it could cause to the body. Consequently, they placed ads on obscure websites seeking volunteers. Rosalia

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the victims, her death was the

ambitious new husband, signed up for the drug trial, not Rosalia herself. To ensure everything went smoothly, Edgar kept the truth from her, falsely claiming it was merely

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words without question and took the pills he suggested without hesitation. As a result, Rosalia lost her sanity, fled

underground lab where Zayne worked discovered she was the heiress of the Grant family, one

truth would be revealed and that the Grant family would seek revenge, the underground lab had promptly ceased all clinical trials of the new drug and had destroyed all related evidence. It was also why, to this

Briar had compelled Zayne to disclose the precise location of the underground lab overseas. She had already shared this information with the DDC Vanguard Base and her two uncles. Now, all she could do

because the underground lab he worked

121 Mercenary Organization for their experiments. They even went so far as to hire hitmen

or discarded mercenaries from the 121 Mercenary Organization, all to achieve

hunt for every researcher

that a seemingly insignificant researcher like Zayne would uncover so many concealed secrets. Considering

individual behind that underground lab, is certainly not someone to be taken lightly. Don’t act rashly,” Ashton warned,